Team Penske driver Ryan Briscoe (2) celebrates winning the pole position with an average of 226.484 to start at the front of row one. Pole Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Against moving Pole Day to Sunday

In this era of sports entertainment, the Indianapolis 500 is the draw, not the qualifying of cars for it, and no procedural change will change that.

Secondly, changes to the 500's qualifying format have come too regularly these days, seemingly requiring a new tutorial each year. It reminds me of NASCAR's tinkering of the all-star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where every year brings a silly new wrinkle. I can't keep up. ...

For all but a few of us, pole days have been on Saturdays, and the last day of qualifying is bump day. Those days have highlighted ...